Define heat capacity and state its SI unit.

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Heat capacity of a substance is defined as the amount of heat energy given or released in changing the temperature of unit mass of substance by $1^{o} C$ .
It is calculated as $S = \frac{Q}{m Δ T}$
Its SI unit is $J / K g^{o} C$ .

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